Discuss: Even though the 1973 Ford Capri RS3100 was never built or sold in USA, it’s still listed under USA country group instead of UK, making it ineligible for Weekly challenge ‘Cascada Fuerte’ for Classic Sports Cars from Europe. There are plenty of other examples of this issue which has never been corrected (eg Ford Falcon is from Australia, not USA).
Even though we never got the RS specifically, we did have the (Euro) Capri in the US up until 1978 (as a Mercury). Engines ranged from 1600-3000 across it’s run.
As has been stated in the past (going back to FH2 or 3 I believe), the parent companies point of origin is where the Country tag comes from, not the car’s production point of origin. Same goes for Ford of Australia’s cars having the Country tag being the US (as Ford started in the US).
As for the Falcon nameplate, it was used in the US first (by quite a large amount of time). In fact, up to 1968, the AU Falcon was based (platform) off of the US version of the Falcon (with minor styling changes). From '69 onward, the two Falcons split and were on different platforms (as the US based one got quite a bit larger before the nameplate was removed from the lineup).
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I don’t think there’d be a huge issue with dividing up all those Fords between Ford USA, Ford Europe and Ford Australia and label their nationalities accordingly. But that’s probably a job for the next title if they concern themselves with this question at all.
Well, it was brought up during FH3, and the silence from PG was deafening…so I guess that’s their answer to all of this…
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I agree we need a Ford UK distinction
Forza: All Fords are USA cars because Henry, you know.
Also Forza: Lexus LFA… Yup, US of A
Me:
I’m sure there’s absolutely perfectly sensible reason to this…
From the wiki for Lexus. The original intention of creating Lexus as a brand was to sell up-market Japanese cars to the US public. Only later did the brand branch out to other countries. Same with (as you can read) Infinity and Acura.
So it’s a parent company thing unless a brand is first released in any given country first, it overrides the parent company rule?
Now I start to see the logic.
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I don’t work for T-10, nor did I have a hand in making the rules…
Best I can gather, it’s more of a “Point of origin” of the name, maybe? No idea otherwise.
as hinted already, one thing’s for sure - PGT10MS are not going to comment on or do anything about this
im pretty sure it refers to WHERE the brand is from not the individual car, but thats just me